Machinic inSites: Temporal Tailored Infill

We are no longer cognisant of the nature of today’s built environment or the technologies that enable it. Urban Operating Systems (Urban OS) such as living-PlanIT™ manage city logistics in real-time; monitoring traffic and initiate trash collection on-demand, while high-frequency trading in the global financial market is being relayed off non-descript rooftops, unaware to passers-by below. The built environment is a complex, chaotic system, that emerges from the interplay of a multitude of agencies, that are perceived, surveyed and managed by machine vision and machine learning technologies, of which we have little knowledge or oversight of. Machinic inSites explores high-frequency building – a temporary occupancy of the built environment that can be rapidly developed through computer vision and machine learning technologies and implemented by additive manufacturing on-demand. Operating as a bespoke tailored infill, proposals speculate on community-led entrepreneurialism, challenging established design and development practices through novel forms of autonomous agency and aesthetic affect.